Jamal

Excuse me for butting in. That passage does not to me show what you think it shows. At most it shows he condemns thinking when it's a complacent or do...

One thing I particularly liked was the idea that the history of analytic philosophy recapitulates what happens in Hume’s Treatise: from deference to s...

I think hermeneutics began among the bible bashers interpreters, and Gadamer is a relative, and relatively secular, latecomer. Aside from his philosop...

Like so many podcasts it's messy and rambling, but it's very interesting and I'm tempted to read the book, A Social History of Analytic Philosophy, wh...

This looks right to me. :up: A strong statement of the problem, but I think this bit is wrong: 'Relations between objects "affinity" is something cate...

Introduction: Idealism as Rage I'm backtracking here. Reading the following from J. M. Bernstein in the Blackwell Companion to Adorno made me realize ...

Introduction: Argument and Experience (i) A hell of a passage, ultra-compressed and dialectical. Adorno is criticizing Hegelian dialectics but at the ...

Others are welcome to go over the system sections in more detail, but since we discussed the stuff about system quite a lot when reading the lectures,...

No doubt you're confused because your circadian rhythm is disrupted by living in the wrong timezone.

The horarium was originally based on rough, flexible divisions, stemming from Roman timekeeping, which had variable hours. Certainly, clock time came ...

Clock time was invented to coordinate exploitation.

@"Moliere" I feel like I might want to read his Aesthetic Theory after ND. Since it was written after ND, it might actually be a conscious application...

That's an interesting point that I will ponder.

Again, ND is in a sense doing just that, since the idea of immanent critique is to confront ideological concepts on their own terms and push them to b...

Yes, because ND itself tries to see the world without the distortions of ideology (he notes the importance of the appearance/reality discinction). Eve...

Since we are not reading the original, I take it you think my recent post about how Adorno performs the content of his philosophy in the form of his w...

Things like this belong in the Lounge, so put it there yourself next time please.

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This does not even begin to address or even acknowledge my points. But some of us think you're thinking about it wrong.

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@"hypericin" You've contrasted pragmatic function with usefulness. But when Oscar Wilde said that "all art is quite useless"—and I believe @"Moliere" ...

I'd probably be interested in Baudrillard's criticism of genealogy but I don't understand it from what you've quoted or from the interview it's taken ...

It should be a new discussion. It doesn't belong in this one.

I agree, but tell that to the bat mass-murderer @"Mikie".

Today I was reading Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848–1849 by Christopher Clark. It describes some of the counter-revolutionary acts...

In the "Relation to System" section there's a remarkable passage that charts the rise of the philosophical system and accounts for this in starkly Mar...

Very interesting post, MU, I like it. I think your interpretative scheme of death/religion, profound/profane, sacrosanct/blasphemy, is inventive and e...

Yep.

So how does this play out in the text? Take the following sentence as an example. The thing to notice is how compressed it is. It awkwardly crams in t...

Maybe something like this. Darstellung or the moment of expression is the deliberate interpretation of the given facts, whereas Vorstellung, the repre...

Exactly. And the sentence I've bolded hits the nail on the head. Adorno's version of speculative thought is only negative; it doesn't offer a positive...

Introduction: Speculative Moment This section is about speculation and depth, covered mainly in lecture 9. There's something I missed in my post about...

Modernity and the Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman. I've been meaning to read Bauman for years, and I happened upon this one, which happens to work very we...

I’ll just respond in a rather arcane and non-topical fashion to this particular point, without addressing the main question. Some of the most influent...

Interesting! It's definitely thingly, since he uses it again later on in the book, where it's helpfully accompanied by the German: A.I. gives me the f...

Before I say something about the "Speculative Moment" section, I'll just pick up on something in the previous section. The last sentence expresses an ...

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@"Moliere" I intend to respond in a few days. Just so you know I’m not ignoring you.

Fair enough. From my standpoint it's laughter without clarification. Clarification is to philosophy as explaining a joke is to humour.

Sheesh

Like these?

You're a slippery customer. But there's no argument in your post for this. It's clear to me that the meaning you find internally (talking to yourself)...

I believe you now. But who or what is doing this? I mean, aside from TC. The rejection of metaphysics is important to a lot of modern philosophy, star...

What are you referring to here? Who or what do you think is guilty of this? Why do you think so? Are you trying hard to be cryptic, because it’s appro...

Which area? I thought it was about knowledge in general.

No. Adorno saw suffering, and considered the need give voice to suffering to be the motivation of philosophy properly so-called. Thus, from feeling an...

I'm inclined to say that knowledge is about the interpretation of facts. To know is to be able to understand the facts, which is about context and rel...

That looks like a basic justification for esotericism, mysticism, or religion: since the truth cannot be reached rationally/conceptually, we have to o...